Originally posted by TJ Spikes
B. That's weird. The usual for a Punter is to just buy SAs with BTs, like 2X Big Boot or whatever. I would say if it's a Boomer P then he should be rocking close to 100 strength, which should be enough to deck a PR. You might want to do Anti-fake for Juke avoidance. If he's a Tech Punter, the maybe MT% is best. If you've invested in Jumping, then maybe Diving Tackle would be worth a shot if you want to save some BTs.
I tried something with the last punter I built that worked decently... I'm trying to improve on that. By borrowing a little from Strength (finishing in the 90's) and Punting (finishing right at 100) I can push speed to around 80 (equal to agility) and tackling to around 50-70 (last one had 63). It will never be confused as a HH LB but it still works well. Last one had 2 MT pieces (because of low tackling) CEQ was also MT. I don't think I got the 3rd AEQ for it last time. Also grabbed DvG VA to go with his Punting stuff.
The thinking is this; Sure, my last punter was around 5-10 yards less (per average punt) than the others in the league... but she led in Coffin Corner punts and punts inside the 20. When I was doing ST's for a while, I noted that most punts happen between the 40's (both sides of the field)... so being able to hammer 80 yard punts only comes into play once in a blue moon. Also, a lot of those super long punts had decent returns against them because of out-kicking the coverage by so much. If your punter can coffin corner a 50-60 yarder on a regular basis then you've likely got a MVP punter even if it can't kick it 80 yards. So I figured why not take a little off the super-sized side (less strength for sure and maybe not 107 natural punting either), work on some of the aiming skills (vision and agility), add in some speed and whatever tackling you can do and maybe have a punter that can actually play on ST's instead of being a 'foot only'?
My last punter had 13 tackles in her career so it wasn't the worst idea ever. She might've had more if the ST coach would've used her on Kickoffs (I was thinking IN2 or IN3?). So my thoughts for a 3rd AEQ piece were along the lines of a FF% piece? Trouble is, with less than 70 tackling, is that a waste of time??? That is what I don't know.
As for the FS, thanks guys. Pretty much confirms my own thoughts. It's a Combo arch that's primarily a pass defender/int build. I just don't want it to be utterly worthless against the run or if needed to tackle a receiver after a catch.